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Trust In Food™, Farm Journal’s climate-smart ag division, is looking for a Sustainable Commodities Technical Manager in the Southeast area of the United States to work on the innovative Connected Ag Climate-Smart Commodities Pilot Project. Trust In Food™ is gearing up to implement a $40M Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program enrolling growers in at least 19 states and focusing on Regenerative Agriculture practices related to row crop, specialty crop, and livestock production. Join a great team that is Revolutionizing how Sustainable Producers connect with Technology, Regenerative and Climate-Smart Agriculture systems of Today.
This essential role is well suited for a person who appreciates technology and has knowledge of Regenerative Agriculture Principles. This position will ensure commodity producers engagement is optimized using insights from Farm Journal’s proprietary database and oversee all technical assistance delivery to producers across a 6-state territory (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi). Guide producers through an innovation process of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices and assist them in selecting the correct practices and technology for their operation.
This position will work in partnership with several Farm Journal teams, partners, and USDA.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a primary technical assistance provider and coordinate with partner assistance to provide producers holistic conservation planning. This will allow producers to make informed decisions on what practices and technology would best fit their operations as they transition into Climate-Smart Agriculture systems and markets.
- Identify and coordinate the resources from the Farm Journal Proprietary Database to execute on the ground needs of producers.
- Develop a detailed project report for leadership throughout the grant on needs, changes, and updates.
- Help to ensure USDA local offices are aware of the applicants and that they don’t have an existing USDA program on the same farm for the same practice.
- Measure project performance, report to leadership and provide ongoing progress reports.
SKILLS + ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED
- Must be located in the Southeast Region of the United States in one of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, or Mississippi.
- Understanding of Regenerative Agriculture Principles.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a manager role or similar position.
- Experience working with Historically Underserved Farmers and Ranchers
- Proven project management experience and skills.
- Good client-facing and internal communication skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to manage competing priorities with high regards to details.
- The capability to manage multiple projects and tasks on a regular basis.
- Adaptable, flexible, thrives in ambiguous and evolving environments.
- Team player. Belief that communication, collaboration and accountability are keys to a great teammate.
- Knowledge in the commodity industry, technology and agriculture required.
Farm Journal is the recognized leader in B2B agriculture content, data and business insights. The Company’s broad portfolio of content channels – including magazines, broadcast, websites, events, enewsletters, social and mobile audiences and other online offerings – feed the most robust demographic and behavioral database and the largest collection of 1st party data in the industry The Company serves almost every key audience in agriculture, including crop farmers, livestock producers, the produce chain (retail, growers, shippers, wholesalers, brokers, etc.) and ag retail (crop and livestock input retailers, co-ops, consultants, farm managers, machinery dealers, etc.).
The Farm Journal brand is an industry icon and the Company’s trusted agricultural resources include market leaders such as AgWeb.com, The Packer, Drovers, Dairy Herd Management and Pro Farmer and nationally renowned television and radio programs including “U.S. Farm Report,” “AgDay,” “Machinery Pete” and “AgriTalk.” Farm Journal’s portfolio also includes more than a dozen industry-leading websites, from AgWeb.com and ThePacker.com to ProduceMarketGuide.com. The Company licenses detailed industry data through its FarmReach Vision database, publishes several paid-information newsletters, produces numerous large-scale live events, and provides extensive custom-publishing services. Farm Journal is also majority owner of the leading used farm equipment marketplace, Machinery Pete, LLC.
Farm Journal demonstrates unique industry leadership through the Farm Journal Foundation, a non-profit, public hunger charity established to sustain agriculture's ability to meet the vital needs of a growing population through education and advocacy, and with Trust In FoodTM, a Farm Journal Initiative to empower resilient and sustainable agriculture by helping farmers enrich soils, protect waters, clear skies and nurture habitat.
